Classified Pagination Users Guide
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Vision Pagination User's Guide Version 1.0 Fourth Edition Copyright 1993 - 1995 Vision Data Equipment Corporation 1377 Third Street Rensselaer, New York 12144 (518) 434-2193 Fax: (518) 434-3457 Pagination Created by: Rost Vavrick Documentation by: David B. Finlayson Vision Data Equipment Corporation Pagination Users Guide Contents Introduction Forward ................................................................................................. 4 System Overview.................................................................................. 4 System Features................................................................................... 5 Getting Started Before you begin .................................................................................. 6 Pagination ............................................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 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Classified .............................................................................................. 6 Preparation ........................................................................................... 8 Tutorial Preparing to Paginate .......................................................................... 9 Start QuarkXPress.................................................................... 9 Open a page template ................................................................. 10 View the Entire Page ................................................................... 11 Initialize the Pagination Xtension................................................. 12 Placing Ads on the Page...................................................................... 12 Flowing Ads by section ................................................................ 13 Flowing 5 sections of Ads at once ............................................... 13 Adjusting Ads on the page........................................................... 13 Reorganizing your page............................................................... 16 Placing the next section............................................................... 16 View an Ad (Show Picture) .................................................................. 16 Switch Headers on & off ...................................................................... 17 Switch Headers off....................................................................... 17 Switch Headers on....................................................................... 18 Contents 2 Vision Data Equipment Corporation Pagination Users Guide Draw House Ads ................................................................................... 18 Draw a Picture Box ...................................................................... 18 Open the list of house Ads........................................................... 18 Re-size the Ad Box ...................................................................... 20 Re-organize your Page................................................................ 20 Completing a Page ............................................................................... 20 Placing Filler Ads ......................................................................... 20 Filling Gaps.................................................................................. 21 Continuing on the next page ............................................................... 22 Go to the page............................................................................. 22 Select the page............................................................................ 22 Continuing Pagination.................................................................. 23 Creating an additional page ................................................................ 23 Go to the new page ..................................................................... 23 Continuing Pagination.................................................................. 23 Create a Banner.................................................................................... 24 Draw a Picture Box ...................................................................... 24 Set the box as a banner............................................................... 24 Re-organize your Page................................................................ 24 When you have completed all pages .................................................. 24 Contents 3 Vision Data Equipment Corporation Pagination Users Guide Introduction Foreward This manual has been created to assist customers of Vision Data Equipment Corporation in using the Vision Pagination software product. It provides a first resource for users who need assistance in the areas of operations, training materials or procedure. To help make this guide easier to use, screen pictures were used to highlight certain explanations. Although this guide is intended for users of the Vision Pagination product operating on Macintosh computers, the screen pictures were taken from the Microsoft Windows version of QuarkXPress. This is due to a limitation of the Author's computer system. The actual functionality displayed may differ from the Macintosh version, however the concepts are identical. System Overview Vision Data's Vision Pagination is a sophisticated tool for paginating Classified advertising sections of Newspaper style publications. It provides all functions needed to create a professionally designed classified page and performs page development in a "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) mode of operation. Vision Pagination performs all its functions from within QuarkXPress so the layout and format are familiar to users. Because a Vision Classified page is contained within QuarkXPress, the pages can be integrated with other QuarkXPress functions your publication may be performing. It produces a postscript format file which can be directly printed to paper or film, or can be electronically transferred by a variety of different media types. Note: All ads, including liners are paginated as postscript graphic files. Users of Vision Pagination will not experience any issues or problems commonly associated with the manipulation of text. Some of these issues resolved by this feature of Vision Pagination include problems with inappropriate hyphenation and incorrect line spacing. 4 Vision Data Equipment Corporation Pagination Users Guide System Features • Automatic Ad placement on the page. • Mouse "Click and Drag" placement and adjustment of Display Classified ads. • Automatically fills liner ads based upon pre-set criteria. • Controls and places all section headers for both Display and liner ads. • Inserts stored filler ads wherever gaps allow. • Complete capabilities for insertion of House Ads. • Performs even gap filling between liner ads for an even bottom edge. • Creates page in "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) mode. • Allows on-line display of any ad during pagination. • Supports up to Twelve (12) columns. • Supports any page size. • Allows placement of Banners anywhere on the Page. • Corrrect number of pages are automatically created. • Total number of Ad inches is provided prior to pagination. • Creates pages within QuarkXPress. • All output is provided in Postscript format or as a QuarkXPress document. • Can Be set to flow Front-to-Back or Back-to-Front. • Automatically numbers pages and places your custom designed folio. 5 Vision Data Equipment Corporation Pagination Users Guide Getting Started Before you begin Before you begin using Vision Pagination, two different areas of set-up which must be performed before your system is ready to use in the pagination process. The first is Pagination Set-up, the second is any set-up needed within the Vision Classified software. Both of these set-up functions will be performed by Vision Data's staff upon your specifications. Setup Pagination must be set-up based upon certain criteria you must define regarding the layout and appearance of your newspaper. Templates A separate QuarkXpress template must be made for each newspaper that contains any variation of the following specifications: • Overall Page size. • Number of Columns. • Pagination from Front-to-Back or Back-to-Front. • Flow Display Ads from Top-to-Bottom or Bottom-to-Top. When creating the template you cannot use “Text Box” option or facing pages. Both features must be turned off. Each template must be only be a single page in length. Templates 6 Vision Data Equipment Corporation Pagination Users Guide Classified Classified must be set-up based upon certain criteria you must define regarding each of your publications. Some of the determinations you must make include: Customer preparation in Classified System: • Definition of Publications. • Definition of Class codes. • Ad width (determined by page width divided by number of columns minus total space between columns. • Create Section Headers. • Create Filler Ads. These and other specifications are further detailed within the Vision Classified Users Guide. Vision Display Advertising System Display A/R must be set-up based upon certain criteria you must define regarding each of your publications. Some of the determinations you must make include: Customer preparation